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Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end. [R.] Those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously. Milton.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies. Elton.

Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." Shak. "Outrageous panegyric." Dryden.

To surpass nature in the picture or representation of. [Obs.] "O'erpicturing that Venus." Shak.

aracter; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition.

Of the nature of, or by means of, a paction. Bp. Sanderson.

Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. "Pageant pomp." Dryden.

mentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote. [Parliamentary Cant]

Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry. Palissy ware, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief.

Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.

The theory that all nature is psychical or has a psychical aspect; the theory that every particle of matter has a psychical character or aspect. -- Pan*psy"chic (#), a. -- Pan*psy"chist (#), n. -- Pan`psy*chis"tic (#), a.

Of or pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy. Sir T. Browne.

ecifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. Chaucer. Declare unto us the parable of the tares. Matt. xiii. 36.

Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction.

Of the nature of a paradox.

Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.

Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free. -- Par`a*phras"tic*al*ly, adv.

Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. "Parasitic preachers." Milton.

r; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care. The careful course and parental provision of nature. Sir T. Browne.

Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales.